Editing Bound Devil Chambers Conspiracy (section)

==Recruitment Notes==
The game is going to focus on what the Dynasty is.

I want players interested in playing up the complex nature of being a century-old elemental super-soldiers raised under the assumption that they are enlightened bodhisattvas and indoctrinated to engage in petty battles of one-upmanship to be better prepared to face the coming demons and dangers of the Age of Sorrows.

We’re talking about Grant Morison doing Jane Austin and I, Claudius through the eyes of Jack Vance. We’re talking about complex tea ceremonies involving poisons ground from flowers found only in virgin’s dreams, and duels of honour between mecha-pilots over who may ask Lady Mnemon Tenaka to dance at the Calibration Festival, and kung-fu feuds between dojo’s that support different forms of sculpting. We’re talking about the ancient blood-cult’s ziggurat you purified as a childhood folly being used by your great-grandson raise unicorns and sabre-tooth tigers for competitive shows, or a God-Emperor with fiery eyes and super-strength bending on knee for Imperial sanction because he is your exotic foreigner client.

But I’m rambling, so lets get to the meat of it.

The PC’s will be a secret group reporting directly to the Scarlet Empress, subtly enacting her will. The game is set 2 years before the Fall of Thorns, at the apogee of Imperial power. As such characters will:

*Be very powerful. Character Creation will be: Starting Charms (15, with at least 7 from your Aspect and 3 from your favoured Abilities), Starting Virtues (7), Starting Permanent Essence (3), Bonus Points (45). The Scarlet Empress is seeking those with power and influence, but not too much power and influence. In other words, heroes, legends and leaders, but not possible challengers to her undisputed mastery of all.

*Be at least century old, and under two centuries old. This is non-negotiable, as my vision of the Realm doesn’t allow upstarts to reach the highest peaks of power.

*Must have a bunch of interesting, glorious accomplishments worthy of being a luminary of the Host for decades upon decades. Given I’ll be playing with the fact the entire Host could barely fill a middle-sized Australian mining town, and thus everyone knows everyone, and at the same time everyone is Doc Savage-level cool, I need stuff to work with. Not a long backstory if that’s not your thing, but a clear set of principles to work with when building up the society around you. So be sure to make your guy cool and unique, not “just a typical realm sorcerer with a few demons” or “a fire-aspected melee guy” or whatnot. Not that those ideas are bad, they’re just not enough.

*Be very loyal. Some of you will be ambitious, some will be pragmatists, some will be elemental saints and some will be mindless super-soldiers. All, however, will be the kind of people who will support the Empress above any other interest, at least for now.

*Chosen from all corners of the Realm. Strong shtick protection is built into the conceit. This Illuminati-like Council was meant to be a microcosm of the way the Realm interacts internally, and to add another layer of hidden complexity to her system of control. As such, no 2 PC’s should overlap too much. Claim your shtick along the lines of House/Institution/Personal Skills, and we’ll keep everyone else away. ''Example: Having two soldier-types would okay, if one was a beloved leader of legions from the Army, one a sullen strategist from the Navy. Two monks would be okay, if one was an Earth-Aspected enlightened martial artist and the other a Wood-Aspected politically-minded calligrapher.''


As for play expectations:

*Mechanically, Exalted 2nd Edition. House-rules to be discussed later- but they'll be for smoothing out Social Combat and Mass Combat mainly. Setting-wise, bits of firsta nd second edititon, plus much more detail we'll all create as we go.

*I planned to start this game in the next week, but due to minor back surgery, this game won’t start until around November, 14th. Hopefully, this’ll give you guys more time to finesse your ideas and work out backstories.

*Once we get started, I’d like to see decent post rates, but nothing flash needed. Once every two or three days will be fine, though more is of course better.

*That said, don’t post a speed bump- no single paragraphs or lines. Each post should have a bit of meat to it, to let the next guy or myself work with it.

*In keeping with the above principle, please be comfortable with puppeteering. To get graceful dialogue and faster-moving fight scenes, every player will probably use the other characters to some degree or another. The balancing rule, of course, is to be respectful and sensible- we’re not in competition here.

*I have no idea how popular this’ll be, but I won’t be doing first come, first served. I’ll be looking for the best ideas, the most compatible shticks and the basic writing capacity.